Feel free to post a question about the syllabus to the About the syllabus discussion.
[x] Update your ArcGIS Online (AGOL) profile to include a personalized photo or avatar and your areas of special skills (e.g., "I'm good at data vis", "I'm a StoryMap master", or "I literally know how to use Python").
[x] Includes your preferred name (so we know who you are)
[x] Includes the same profile image you used for your AGOL profile (to help us know it's you)
[x] Choose a focus: programming.
Programming focus: you already have some experience using Python, so begin your journey by looking at Notebooks, the cloud-based programming environment for solving your geospatial problems
[x] Join the GroupMe chat (email your professor your preferred email for GroupMe)
Like a comment or just say "hi"
[x] Log into AGOL and make sure you are a member of the "AdvGIS - Fall 2021" group
[x] I completed the Ice Breaker challenge on the first day of classes
On GitHub
[x] Familiarize yourself with the Markdown syntax (see resources below)
[x] Introduce yourself to the class with a comment on the Welcome Discussion.
[x] (Wait until you hear from your instructor that it's okay to do this) Create a new issue on our repository's Issues, title it with your name (e.g., Davis's Checklist), copy-and-paste The Master Checklist content to the "Write" section, under Assignees: assign yourself, under Labels: checklist. Be sure to note your issue's unique number.
This is your copy of the master checklist
Use it to keep track of your accomplishments as you go through the semester
You may also see how your peers are progressing to judge your own time management
[x] Create your Report Wiki on our repository's Wiki page
This is where you submit your weekly tasks, goals, and accomplishments
See Home page for instructions
For Certificate Students only
[x] Save a copy of the Performance Accomplishments document and share it with your professor (with edit permissions so I can leave comments)
Update the Evaluee section with your name
[x] Sign up for your Semester Start, Progress, and Final meetings here
Note that you can adjust your scheduled times at any time; please inform your instructor of any changes.
The Consultancy
[x] Find a team (in groups of up to three people) to work together
[x] Form your consultancy.
It should have:
[x] Name: Wetland Mappers
[x] Members: Grace Molino
[x] Logo: see website
[x] Slogan: Studying the wetlands of today so we can understand the wetlands of tomorrow.
Create a publicly accessible website and provide the following:
[x] Video (~20 min or less) that summarizes your article (background, methods, and results + your first impressions)
[x] Video (~10 min or less) on data collection or creation (w/ map or visual)
[x] Audio/video (~ 5 min or less) on a geoprocess or challenge you faced
[x] Prepare a publicly accessible progress report for your client meeting
It may be your website, slideshow, StoryMap, or another web-accessible document. Make it clear on your website how / where to access it.
Be sure to include visual aids
Remember that your client is not a GIS expert; tone your report for a lay audience
[x] Schedule a progress report meeting with your client here
[x] Write down your thoughts regarding the experience of working through this project and the client meeting in your weekly report
Copy and paste your response here:
I scheduled my Client Meeting after completing the three required videos summarizing the project, reviewing methods, and discussing a geoprocessing challenge. This made preparing for the Client Meeting very simple as I already had a powerpoint I could build on and had worked through how to explain my methods to a non-GIS person for the second two videos. I added in screen grabs od models I made in Model Builder as well as maps of the progress I had made on recreating the main figure of the paper. From there, I rehearsed my presentation a few times prior to the meeting to ensure I said everything I wanted to. The meeting went smoothly from my perspective. I provided a Zoom link a week before the meeting in the online form as well as through email the day before. During the meeting, I covered all the material I planned to in a reasonable amount of time and explained everything as if the CGA fellow knew no GIS coming into the meeting. All the questions she had following the presentation were about application and the study itself, rather than the methods so I feel comfortable that I kept the presentation at the right level. Overall, I think it was professional and went as well as possible.
If I had to go back and change one thing: During the presentation, I showed images of the model I made in ArcDesktop to analyze data needed to reproduce one of the paper figures. The input and output files were labeled based on my personal labeling nomenclature but if I were to do the presentation again I would relabel them to be more generic names that anyone watching would understand what they were with minimal explanation.
[x] Rate your paper's level of reproducibility (based on your opinion)
The levels are:
S: satisfactory (methods are clear and reproducible)
M: marginal (it is hard to say because some methods are unclear and/or data are outdated or not readily available)
U: unsatisfactory (there is no known way to reproduce these methods)
Our consultancy gives our paper the rating of S for the following reasons:
The authors of the paper posted their results to GitHub, with explanations for each file and each attribute. They also posted their R code for data processing which they automated. All of the data used by the authors was open source and freely available for anyone to download over the internet. The methods section was clear and easy to understand.
The Special Works Solutions
Prepare two methodologies for solving one of the special works projects
The special works project should emphasize a skill set that one of the consultants identified as a weakness in the pre-semester survey
Solutions may be typed or recorded
Solution Method 1:
[x] Solved to "basic" level
[x] Solved to "intermediate" level (tick both boxes)
Solution Method 2:
[x] Solved to "basic" level
[x] Solved to "intermediate" level (tick both boxes)
[x] We posted our solutions to our consultancy website
[ ] We presented a discussion of our solutions in class or on GitHub
The Novel Datasets
[x] Our consultancy created a novel dataset
[x] in a file geodatabase and/or
[x] in GeoJSON format
[x] We posted a link to our dataset (with a license, description, and relevant metadata) to our consultancy website
[ ] We presented a discussion of our dataset (and the methods for its creation) in class or on GitHub
Engagement
[x] Sign up here to schedule to contribute at least once to each of the five weekly topics.
If you are a certificate student, instead sign up for one topic each week.
[x] Question of the week. Date(s): 10/22, 11/12
[x] Data share of the week. Date(s): 9/10, 11/5, 11/19
[x] Ethics consideration of the week. Date(s): 9/17, 9/24, 10/29, 12/3
[x] Vocab term of the week. Date(s): 10/1, 10/15, 11/26
[x] Method of the week. Date(s): 10/8, 12/10
[x] Each week, respond to and/or engage with the five weekly discussion posts.
If there is no natural response, then please respond with a reaction to the comment.
[x] I responded to more than five discussion posts on GitHub
[x] I responded to more than ten discussion posts on GitHub
[x] Share a selfie where you are holding or standing next to a physical item within Swem library (e.g., an open book, a painting, or a map) to our GitHub discussion board with a short description of the item and how it relates to a geospatial topic
[x] This includes creating folders and/or updating item names
[x] This includes updating the metadata (summary, description, terms of use, tags, and credits (attribution) appropriately on all shared items (organizationally, publicly or with groups)
[x] I shared a plan on how I organize my AGOL content and/or a system for tagging items in class or on GitHub
Complete at least three (3) hours or six (6) tutorials from one of the following sites: (1) Esri Academy; (2) ArcGIS Developer Guides; (3) Learn ArcGIS; (4) other approved resource (*include names of and links to each tutorial completed)
[ ] Tutorial 1
[ ] Tutorial 2
[ ] Tutorial 3
[ ] Tutorial 4
[ ] Tutorial 5
[ ] Tutorial 6
Final Touches
[x] I updated this checklist to match my accomplishments (you are not required to complete everything on this checklist)
[x] I completed the course evaluation
Please include your thoughts on the course structure, topics, things that worked, and things that didn't work for you
[ ] I grant unrestricted permission to use media (e.g., web content, audio or video) I created for educational purposes
Note that you are not required to tick this box and, at any time, you may request that materials you made for this class be removed from use in past, current, and future classes
For certificate students only
Prepare solutions to two (2) special works projects.
Note that the same special works project cannot be used to satisfy both of the following.
[x] Create a tutorial (written, audio, video) that accomplishes the reproducibility of your methods and results
[x] Complete a live demonstration of solving a special works project.
Prepare your Performance Accomplishments document and share it with your professor.
[x] Objective 1: include the benefits of independent and collaborative work
[x] Objective 2: prepare a definition of geoethics and provide example(s) that demonstrate what it means (include all necessary citations)
[x] Objective 3: Highlight a skill that you learned this semester (e.g., time management, data management, programming or other); reflect on how you organized your AGOL content; and reflect on the three pitfalls of GIS:
Failure to know GIS (theory and lexicon).
Failure to communicate GIS (purpose, process and metadata).
Failure to execute GIS (using the right data with the right tools in the right way).
[x] Objective 4: reflect on your client meeting, what you would have done differently, and the challenges with communicating geospatial methods to a lay audience
[x] Objective 5: reflect on the benefits of programmatic approaches for addressing geospatial challenges and provide an example
Getting Started
On GitHub
For Certificate Students only
The Consultancy
The Reproducibility Project and Client Meeting
I scheduled my Client Meeting after completing the three required videos summarizing the project, reviewing methods, and discussing a geoprocessing challenge. This made preparing for the Client Meeting very simple as I already had a powerpoint I could build on and had worked through how to explain my methods to a non-GIS person for the second two videos. I added in screen grabs od models I made in Model Builder as well as maps of the progress I had made on recreating the main figure of the paper. From there, I rehearsed my presentation a few times prior to the meeting to ensure I said everything I wanted to. The meeting went smoothly from my perspective. I provided a Zoom link a week before the meeting in the online form as well as through email the day before. During the meeting, I covered all the material I planned to in a reasonable amount of time and explained everything as if the CGA fellow knew no GIS coming into the meeting. All the questions she had following the presentation were about application and the study itself, rather than the methods so I feel comfortable that I kept the presentation at the right level. Overall, I think it was professional and went as well as possible.
If I had to go back and change one thing: During the presentation, I showed images of the model I made in ArcDesktop to analyze data needed to reproduce one of the paper figures. The input and output files were labeled based on my personal labeling nomenclature but if I were to do the presentation again I would relabel them to be more generic names that anyone watching would understand what they were with minimal explanation.
The authors of the paper posted their results to GitHub, with explanations for each file and each attribute. They also posted their R code for data processing which they automated. All of the data used by the authors was open source and freely available for anyone to download over the internet. The methods section was clear and easy to understand.
The Special Works Solutions
The Novel Datasets
Engagement
Become More Geoethical
Managing Your Data
Getting Started With Notebooks
Additional Practice
Complete at least three (3) hours or six (6) tutorials from one of the following sites: (1) Esri Academy; (2) ArcGIS Developer Guides; (3) Learn ArcGIS; (4) other approved resource (*include names of and links to each tutorial completed)
Final Touches
For certificate students only